| A permanent state of emergency: a neo-aesthetic view on contemporary politics and art

Miško Šuvakovic describes his experience of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as a “permanent state of emergency”. The author explores this perspective in relation to the politics of time (dialectic historicizing) and the politics of space (geographic difference). By mapping visual arts, performance arts, architecture, music, new media and postmedia arts with contemporary theory, philosophy and aesthetics, he challenges established conceptualizations in modern and contemporary art movements.

Contents:Introduction

Politics of Theory • Theories of Modernism. Politics of Time and Space • The Return of the Political in Contemporary Aesthetics, Philosophy and Art • Troubles with the Economy, Geography and History. The Social Turn • Gray Zones – Political Economy through Forms of Life. Eleven Theses on Feuerbach, Friedman, Hayek and Speculative Realism

Socialism / Cold War / Postsocialism • The Aesthetics of Disruption. Platforms of Avant-Garde Production in Socialist Yugoslavia and Serbia • Conceptual Art. The Yugoslav Case • Beyond Borders. John Cage, Cold War Politics and Artistic Experimentation in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Music Through Aesthetics • The Phenomenology of the Screen (and / or / as) Event. Musical De-Ontologisation • Aesthetics, Politics and Music. The Context of Contemporary Critical Theory • Music and Politics. The Reconstruction of Aesthetics and the Contemporary World

Critical Architecture • General Theory of Ideology. Architecture • Architecture as Cultural Practice. The Market's Appropriation of the Social or the Ideology of the Multitude

Performance Art • Technologies of Performance in Performance Art. Concepts and Phenomenological Research • The Avant-Garde: Performance and Dance. Ideologies, Events, Discourses • Discourses and Dance. An Introduction to the Analysis of the Resistance of Philosophy and Theory towards Dance • Theoretical Performance. Performative Knowledge • Appropriations of Music. Postmedia: Music • Beyond Paper. Postmedia and Flexible Art • Bio Art. The Prehuman / The Human / The Posthuman • Simultaneously Always, Now and Everywhere. A Real Fiction • Multiple Political/Sexual Bodies. Between the Public and the Intimate • Auto-Criticism of Subjectivisation. Painting as Postmedia Politics